Governor.



Patented Au 22, I899.

0. STEINLE.

GOVERNOR.

(Application filed m 27, 1899) (No Model.)

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OTTO STEINLE, OF QUEDLINBURG, GERMANY.

GOVERNOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 631,340, dated August 22, 1899.

Application filed May 27, 1899. Serial No. 718,556. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, OTTO STEINLE, a subject of the King of Prussia, German Emperor, and a resident of Quedlinburg, in the Province of Saxony, German Empire, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in and Connected to Governors, (for which a patent application has been filed in Germany on the 29th of April, 1899,) ofwhich the following is an exact specification.

Hitherto the governors olfered the serious drawback that when the number of the shaft revolutions was altered suddenly the centrifugal weights produced a great amount of friction and the whole mechanism was used rapidly.

The object of the present invention is to obviate this drawback in regulating automatically the centrifugal weights and is attained by transmitting the alterations of the revolutions of the governor-spindle to the centrifugal weights. Thereby is attained, that the inertia forces and the centrifugal forces are employed for altering the position of the slide.

weights g, acting against springs, slide upon guide-rods f, screwed into the slide 19, rotating loosely around the governor-spindle.

The governor-weights by means of levers h are connected to a sliding socket 2', which in any suitable manner is connected to the steamvalve of the engine. WVhen the revolution of the spindle lessens suddenly, the slide 17, and consequently the centrifugal weights will keep up the original rapidity; but the double lever a, owing to its rigid connection with thespindle, tends to approach the slide 12. Thereby the centrifugal weights 9 diverge farther, and consequently the'number of revolutions lessens.

The alteration of position of the centrifugal weights is'transmitted by means oflevers h to a sliding socket 4 from where it is transmitted further to the steam-valve of the engine in any suitable manner.

Having thus fully described the nature of this invention, what I desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is- In an improved shaft-governor the combination with a double lever ctrigidly connected to the governor-spindle, spring-acted centrifugal weights 9 sliding upon rods, leversd conn ecting the centrifugal weights to the double lever a, a slide Z) loosely mounted upon the spindle, rods ffixed to the slide and carrying the centrifugal Weights, levers h transmitting the alteration in position of the centrifugal weights to a sliding socket i, for the purpose and substantially as set forth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two witnesses.

OTTO STEINLE.

Witnesses:

F. T. STEPHAN, M. DIEDERICH. 

